Diseases

Often sent as punishment — De 28:21; Joh 5:14.

Often brought from other countries — De 7:15.

Often through Satan — 1Sa 16:14-16; Job 2:7.

Regarded as visitations — Job 2:7-10; Ps 38:2,7.

Intemperance a cause of — Ho 7:5.

Sins of youth a cause of — Job 20:11.

Over-excitement a cause of — Da 8:27.

Were many and divers — Mt 4:24.

Mentioned in scripture

Ague. — Le 26:16.

Abscess. — 2Ki 20:7.

Atrophy. — Job 16:8; 19:20.

Blindness. — Job 29:15; Mt 9:27.

Boils and blains. — Ex 9:10.

Consumption. — Le 26:16; De 28:22.

Demoniacal possession. — Mt 15:22; Mr 5:15.

Deafness. — Ps 38:13; Mr 7:32.

Debility. — Ps 102:23; Eze 7:17.

Dropsy. — Lu 14:2.

Dumbness. — Pr 31:8; Mt 9:32.

Dysentery. — 2Ch 21:12-19; Ac 28:8.

Emerods. — De 28:27; 1Sa 5:6,12.

Fever. — De 28:22; Mt 8:14.

Impediment speech. — Mr 7:32.

Itch. — De 28:27.

Inflammation. — De 28:22.

Issue of blood. — Mt 9:20.

Lameness. — 2Sa 4:4; 2Ch 16:12.

Leprosy. — Le 13:2; 2Ki 5:1.

Loss of appetite. — Job 33:20; Ps 107:18.

Lunacy. — Mt 4:24; 17:15.

Melancholy. — 1Sa 16:14.

Palsy. — Mt 8:6; 9:2.

Plague. — Nu 11:33; 2Sa 24:15,21,25.

Scab. — De 28:27.

Sunstroke. — 2Ki 4:18-20; Isa 49:10.

Ulcers. — Isa 1:6; Lu 16:20.

Worms. — Ac 12:23.

Children subject to — 2Sa 12:15; 1Ki 17:17.

Frequently

Loathsome. — Ps 38:7; 41:8.

Painful. — 2Ch 21:15; Job 33:19.

Tedious. — De 28:59; Joh 5:5; Lu 13:16.

Complicated. — De 28:60,61; Ac 28:8.

Incurable. — 2Ch 21:18; Jer 14:19.

Physicians undertook the cure of — Jer 8:22; Mt 9:12; Lu 4:23.

Medicine used for curing — Pr 17:22; Isa 1:6.

Art of curing, defective — Job 13:4; Mr 5:26.

God often entreated to cure — 2Sa 12:16; 2Ki 20:1-3; Ps 6:2; Jas 5:14.

Not looking to God in, condemned — 2Ch 16:12.

Those afflicted with

Anointed. — Mr 6:13; Jas 5:14.

Often laid in the streets to receive advice from passers by. — Mr 6:56; Ac 5:15.

Often divinely supported. — Ps 41:3.

Often divinely cured. — 2Ki 20:5; Jas 5:15.

Illustrative of sin — Isa 1:5.